November 7, 2006 Dhiren Barot gets life
and a stern lectureYayaCanada The judge went on and on and on, using every superlative he could think of to describe Barot intentions, lest the public not be strongly enough impacted by the implications of the case - that Al Qaeda exists, that it lives in your neighbourhood, that but for the good offices of secret police services and democratic justice systems the world would be in much worse shambles than G. W. Bush is making of it. ThisisLondon: <Jailed terror plotter is Bin Laden's 'UK general' As Muslim convert Dhiren Barot, 34, was jailed for 40 years for planning "carnage, bloodshed and butchery on a colossal and unprecedented scale", security sources said his murderous plans had been just "weeks" from execution.> In other words, it's another in a long line of cases that smell like a theatre balcony. They must have nabbed this patsy before the barber had a chance to do anything with his hair. Too bad. But not before he took "chilling" footage of the WTC, which if they hadn't told us was "chilling" would have seemed boring if not laughable. Better pics could have been taken by any drunken tourist, and plenty have been. It's almost impossible to believe that Al Qaeda promoted this klutz into its upper echelon and trusted him with such an important task. But they did: Channel4: <The 34-year-old British-raised Islamic convert was a key lieutenant of the terror network's leading figures and one of their highest-ranking operatives in Britain.> Of course, "key" and "senior" Al Qaeda figures are a dime a dozen, aren't they? They've been nabbed by the car load if we are to believe what we've loudly and overly dramatically been told. So frequently near and yet so persistently far ... the dead Bin Laden and his sidekick Zawahiri still elude capture. It's a lucky thing we've been told how to view Barot, otherwise we might think "mole", since he was supposedly a convert to Islam at just the age when an average bloke would be looking around for a well paying job. Like some key players in the Toronto Terror case, for instance. Astoundingly, this kid, who in spite of hard work in school got only so-so grades, ascended high into the ranks of Al Qaeda to be personally supervised by the one and only Khalid Shaikh Mohammed - the "mastermind" behind 9-11. No doubt those amateur, upside down and sideways pics of the WTC were key to the success of the project. He may also have wowed Bin Laden with his proposals for "dirty bombs" and general mayhem - way better than the Gatorade or Suitcase gambits. Or at least given him the best laugh he'd had all decade. Get this: IndyUK: <He suggested in his presentation document to al-Qa'ida leaders that the radiation project should use around 10,000 smoke detectors and either "set them alight" or "place them on top of an explosive device".> This would cost only £70,000 and would most certainly cause panic. Even one activated smoke detector is enough to drive a person crazy, but 10,000 of them? People would be leaping in droves onto the pile in a frantic effort to turn them off or die trying. And get this: GlobalSecurity/VOA: <Barot's plans called for massive, synchronized attacks and including filling stretch limousines with gas canisters and then blowing them up.> Having lots of friends in the stretch limo business who have driven home so many stoned celebrities that they don't mind lifting heavy gas containers is obviously one heck of a huge asset to Al Qaeda. Beyond the above, Barot doesn't seem to have done much of anything except travel around and be on record in places where he might have done something terrible but didn't - much like so many "terrorists" whose trials have come to naught - except that he was thoughtful enough to copiously record all of the details to ensure that his inevitable capture would be backed by ample proof of his terroristic nature and intentions. Let's see, what was Bin Laden doing when Barot was busy converting himself into a wannabe Wahhabi terror freak - oh, that's right, he was working with Pakistan's ISI who were working with the CIA. And pretending to be an outcast from his family and from Saudi Arabia - the wisest thing to do considering that the Bush family and the Bin Laden family were tight. What a guy, that Bin Laden. With all he had to think about, he still took time to make the wildest dreams of an average Indian - and Britain's secret service - come true. Comments yayacanada.com |